Industrial Wastewater Treatment Consultant

Industrial Wastewater Treatment Consultant and Chemical Engineer (1400)

Industrial wastewater treatment and water cooling systems.
Primary (physical/chemical) wastewater treatment; boiler water pretreatment.
Secondary (biological) wastewater treatment; membrane separation systems, MF, UF, RO.
Sludge thickening and dewatering processes.
Water reclamation and reuse.
Complete water system balances, optimization; mathematical modeling of water circuit and processes.
Training related to water treatment processes and water technologies.
Coagulation and flocculation.
Hardware used for water treatment.

Independent Consultant, 2006 - Present

Water and wastewater systems operations and optimization; root-cause analysis.
Water systems capability assessments and reliability improvement.
Innovative process optimization techniques related to industrial water and wastewater.
Canadian Oil Sands tailings water reclamation.

GE Water & Process Technologies / Betz Laboratories, 1987 - 2006

Senior Technical Advisor

Direct and indirect customer water systems and treatment technical support.
Analyzed process wastewater and reuse system and data to develop sequential improvement projects list that maximizes water quality benifit on effort and investment.
Designed and spearheaded implementation of a series of plant tests on new $15 million non-chrome wheel treatment program.
Consulting services to GE Hudson River Remediation project personnel, collaborating in establishment of test protocols for dewatering operations and process design markup reviews.

Product Manager

Managed an multi million wastewater product line, responsible for solving all product problems, establishing cross functional problem solving teams, to reduce costs, improve efficiencies, introduce new products to market, and to improve customer's experiences.
Formed cross functional teams to streamline procurement, manufacture and delivery processes, reducing errors, delays and customer pain.

Project Engineer

Evaluated bottlenecked boiler feed water deionization system capability.
Instituted $200,000 in equipment and operating changes that solved throughput problem while also delivering $1 million per year in regenerant savings. Awarded Betz Chairman's Award.

Water Reuse Specialist

Coordinated laboratory testing leading to wastewater reuse opportunities.
Provided conceptual designs and analyses of makeup water, boiler, cooling, process water and wastewater for water reuse.
Implemented field trials leading to cost-justified water recovery, reclaim and reuse.
Prepared several technical papers based on water reuse work, presenting these at Water Environment Federation (WEFTEC), Ultrapure Water, WaterTech, American Institute of Chemical Engineers and Cooling Tower Institute trade group meetings.

Account Manager

Managed $1.5 million sales and service account on site of customer refinery.
Responsible for day-to-day treatment, monitoring and troubleshooting of all refinery cooling towers systems, high-pressure and waste heat boiler systems, clarification, filtration and boiler feedwater deionization and condensate preparation systems.
Maintained and increased business base through superior technical service.

Engineer

Provided technical support to industrial boiler and cooling systems treatment customers.

Exxon Chemicals, Baton Rouge, LA, Process Engineer

Provided daily technical support to operations of world scale olefins cracking and separations plant producing 4 million lbs/day of ethylene, plus side- and byproducts.
Designed system retrofit to debottleneck debutanizer column to increase yield worth several million dollars per year.
Determined safety needs by measuring capability of site flare system and fire protection (water) system.
Wrote procedures and supervised plant tests to improve yield or reliability.

"Experimentation and thesis on pervaporation membrane process separation"